Container closure



Nov. 6, 1928. 7 1,690,701

J. D. REIFSNYDER CONTAINER CLOSURE Filed April 1927 avwemtoz Patented Nov. 6, H528.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. REIFSNYDER, OF FLUSHING, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO TULIP CONTAINER CORPORATION, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW-YORK.

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Application filed April 5, 1927. Serial No. 181,018.

This invention relates to container closures, and more particularly to .the type commonly used in connection with paper recep tacles or containers; although it is equally as well adapted for use in connection with various forms of containers. Such closures are usually made of fibrous material, such for example as paper board, etc., and have heretofore been provided with numerous lifting devices for removing the closures or caps from the containers, and for replaclng them therein. Various forms of such lifters or pulls have been provided in connection with receptacle closures in the form of wire, metal, or flexible sheet material lifts; but none of-these have been satisfactory from the .standpoint of commercial product-ion, and use over a period of time.

An objectof the present invention is to provide a container closure having a lifter, which is adapted for production at a low cost, which is convenient to use and which will withstand repeated use.

Further objects of the invention will more fully appear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating by way of example the preferred embodiment of the invention.

The present invention comprises a receptacle closure having a lifter which is hinged thereto and is adapted to normally lie adjacent to and in parallelism with the closure or to be moved to a position extending upwardly therefrom, in which position it may be readily grasped to remove the closure. The hinged construction of the lifter permits the same tobe used repeatedly without detriment to the lifter or to the closure of which it forms a part.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate by way of example the preferred embodiment of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a plan view looking from the top, Fig. 2 is a planviewlooking from the bottom,

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 1, and showingthe lifter in its folded position, and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the closure showing the lifter in its raised position; wherein the closure is shown seated in the mouth of a receptacle which is indicated bybroken lines.

' Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the able fibrous material such :Eor example as paper cardboard, and which is of asuitable thickness to provide for stiffness and also to provide for pivot means for the hinged lifter 2, to be more particularly described following. The lifter 2 is made of wire in the form of a loop having its ends 3 and 4 bent downwardly (Fig. 3) through the disc 1 and thenbent rearwardly and upwardly again passing through the disc until the extreme ends of the wire lie closely adjacent to the body of the loop, thereby forming eyes 5 and 6 at the ends 3 and 4 of the loop. As clearly shown in Fig. 3, the ends so formed pass downwardly through the disc 1 and at a distance slightly removed pass upwardly and through the disc, thereby enclosing a portion of the disc 1 within each of the eyes 5 and 6. The eyes together with those portions of the disc 1 which they respectively surround form, in effect, a hinged connection between the lifter and the disc.

The lifter is therefore adapted to lie closely adjacent to the top of the disc as shown in Fig. 3, and may readily be raised to the position shown in Fig. l, in which position it may readily be grasped by the .user for removing the closure from the receptacle. This. movement of the lifter from its inoperative to its operative position in no way injures the lifter itself or the disc, due to the hinged connection. In addition to this feature, another great advantage of the present invention is that the lifter may be positioned extremely near the marginal edge ofthe disc, which is very important in closures of this character, due to the factthat they are usually inserted and removed at one edge.

When the closure is used in connection with the type of container indicated in Fig. 4, which is of a general character similar to that shown in my Patent No. 1,608,617, patented November -30, 1926, entitled Machines for assembling containers, the above advantages are of particular importance, since the closure is seated in a recess which is formed as a head at the mouth of the" container and it is much easier to lift the I closure from the container when the lift is attached adjacent the margin thereof. Furthermore, this type of container is adapted for holding edibles which maybe therefore necessary to remove and replace used only in part at one time, and it is the container cover a plurality of times. With the usual type of lift which is braded to the disc and which necessitates bending the material of the lift each time it is used repeated use of the lift is not possible with out destroying the same. I I

Having thus described my invention with particularity with reference to its preferred form, it will 'be obvious to those skilled in the art, after understanding my invention, that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and I aim in the appended claims to cover such changes and modification as are within the scope of the invention.

What I claim is: 1. A container closure comprising a disc of fibrous material having a metallic lifter provided with an eye at one end which encircles a portion of said disc at a point re-. moved from but closely adjacent to the edge disc a lifter formed of a loop of wire Whose en s are in the form of eyes which encircle respective portions of said disc at a point removed from but closely adjacent the edge of the disc, said encircling eyes and cooperating respective disc portions forming a hinged connection between said disc and said lifter wherein the eye encircled disc port-ions act as the hinge pins about which the lifter is adapted to be freely moved pivotally.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JAMES J). REIFSNYDER. 

